14-02-2009, 07:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-02-2009, 08:33 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
How many lines of peoetry have wisely advised that chaging a name or the unessential exterior, changes not a jot the core. This beast [Read book Blackwater by Scahill!] is really dangerous, a potential Black-Shirt movement, or worse and as already done so much damage, killings, and ill-will [all the name of Jesus, mind you!]. Very American to rebrand and us PR tricks. Next Disney will do a cartoon on Xe guards guarding golden chicken eggs. When they declare martial law and the police can't handle the gore, these Xe guys will be at YOUR door and won't be tricka-treetin!:marchmellow:
These are the guys who killed and weren't prosecuted in New Orleans after Katrina. Prince [owner and personal friend of W's] thinks those who are not Anglo-Saxon, Protestant [evangelical born-agains], rich, far-right and more are not real Americans. He likes war and killing and the money it makes. He cares not one wit for the Consitution or our laws. He is 'God's Soldier' on a mission....where to only the 'Devil' would know. These guys are now into 'private intelligence' and make Ollie North and his bosses look like choir boys:
Scahill: Blackwater now in the private intelligence
Published: Thursday July 31, 2008
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm's latest foray into private intelligence. "They're marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune 500 corporations," he recently told an interviewer.
The forthcoming paperback edition of Scahill's book on Blackwater, which appeared in hardcover in February 2007, will include 100 pages of new material, including a discussion of last September's shooting spree in Baghdad by Blackwater operatives -- which killed 17 Iraqi civilians but for which nobody has ever been charged.
"This is a company that has been accused of murdering Iraqi civilians," Scahill pointed out, "of shooting the bodyguard to the Iraqi vice-president, of causing blowback attacks on United States troops, of hurting the morale of the United States military -- that has cost United States taxpayers over a billion dollars for its operations in Iraq."
However, Scahill's greatest concern at present appears to be Blackwater's venture into the private intelligence business.
"Blackwater started a private intelligence company," he explained, "a private CIA essentially, called Total Intelligence Solutions. And the man running Total Intelligence Solutions is J. Cofer Black. He's a thirty-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also was the guy who ran the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, the government-sanctioned kidnap-and-torture program."
"His thirty-year CIA career, his network of contacts, his knowledge that was gained through his work in the most sensitive areas of the United States government is now on the open market for hire," Scahill said sadly.
"This isn't a liberal or conservative thing," concluded Scahill. "You have a lot of traditional conservatives who are outraged at what they see as the degradation of the United States armed forces. ... This has everything to do with the future of war-making and global stability."
These are the guys who killed and weren't prosecuted in New Orleans after Katrina. Prince [owner and personal friend of W's] thinks those who are not Anglo-Saxon, Protestant [evangelical born-agains], rich, far-right and more are not real Americans. He likes war and killing and the money it makes. He cares not one wit for the Consitution or our laws. He is 'God's Soldier' on a mission....where to only the 'Devil' would know. These guys are now into 'private intelligence' and make Ollie North and his bosses look like choir boys:
Scahill: Blackwater now in the private intelligence
Published: Thursday July 31, 2008
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm's latest foray into private intelligence. "They're marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune 500 corporations," he recently told an interviewer.
The forthcoming paperback edition of Scahill's book on Blackwater, which appeared in hardcover in February 2007, will include 100 pages of new material, including a discussion of last September's shooting spree in Baghdad by Blackwater operatives -- which killed 17 Iraqi civilians but for which nobody has ever been charged.
"This is a company that has been accused of murdering Iraqi civilians," Scahill pointed out, "of shooting the bodyguard to the Iraqi vice-president, of causing blowback attacks on United States troops, of hurting the morale of the United States military -- that has cost United States taxpayers over a billion dollars for its operations in Iraq."
However, Scahill's greatest concern at present appears to be Blackwater's venture into the private intelligence business.
"Blackwater started a private intelligence company," he explained, "a private CIA essentially, called Total Intelligence Solutions. And the man running Total Intelligence Solutions is J. Cofer Black. He's a thirty-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also was the guy who ran the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, the government-sanctioned kidnap-and-torture program."
"His thirty-year CIA career, his network of contacts, his knowledge that was gained through his work in the most sensitive areas of the United States government is now on the open market for hire," Scahill said sadly.
"This isn't a liberal or conservative thing," concluded Scahill. "You have a lot of traditional conservatives who are outraged at what they see as the degradation of the United States armed forces. ... This has everything to do with the future of war-making and global stability."